Re: [PATCHv7 02/14] mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

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On 9/8/22 14:28, Mike Rapoport wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Dionna Amalie Glaze wrote:

Looks like the first access to the memory map fails, although I think
it's not in INIT_LIST_HEAD() but rather in init_page_count().

I'd start with making sure that page_alloc::memmap_alloc() actually returns
accepted memory. If you build kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y the memory map
will poisoned in this function, so my guess is it'd crash there.


That's a wonderful hint, thank you! I did not run this test
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set, but you think it's possible it could still be
here?

It depends on how you configured your kernel. Say, defconfig does not set
it.


I also hit the issue at 256GB. My config is using CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP and fails in memmap_init_range() when attempting to add the first PFN. It looks like the underlying page that is backing the vmemmap has not been accepted (I receive a #VC 0x404 => page not validated).

Kirill, is this a path that you've looked at? It would appear that somewhere in the vmemmap_populate_hugepages() path, some memory acceptance needs to be done for the pages that are used to back vmemmap. I'm not very familiar with this code, so I'm not sure why everything works for a guest with 255GB of memory, but then fails for a guest with 256GB of memory.

Thanks,
Tom




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